So, the plan for 2019 is to have weekly podcast episodes and blog posts. The blog posts will be collected into monthly pdfs, and then collected into an annual. The big plans for the year? I’m going to collect the demons into a single document I’m going to collect the Lord Dunsany stories into a…
Read MoreGames From Folktales 2018 numbers
Hi, Every so often, it’s useful to look at the podcast project and see if its worth the work. Originally I was going to do an annual check-in, but I lost that chance this year because of some playing about that Patreon were doing. So, time for the semiannual audit, as part of the planning…
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A note on a treasure that is a monster: Hercules Epitrapezios
I’ve been listening to a book on the history of art forgery, and it mentions that there are several marble copies of a famous bronze statue, which seems likely to house a Spirit of Artifice or a minor Faerie god in Mythic Europe. An epitrapezios is a statue which, in Classical Greece, was meant to…
Read MoreGames From Folktales 2018
So…178 pages of Ars Magica goodness. Note that this is a collection of the episodes as originally published. I’ve since gone through and statted out quite a few of these, but those are going to be collected in new little booklets in 2019. So far they are going to be a Dunsany book and a…
Read MoreGames From Folktales December 2018!
Why, yes, it is really early… I regret that the air elementals don’t have stats, but all air elementals are basically the same guys. Except this one is a sociopath.
Read More“A Lay of St Nicholas” from the Ingoldsby Legends
A bonus episode to celebrate the Feast of St Nicholas, on December the Fifth. I’ve cut the earlier part of the lay, because it doesn’t serve storytelling. I’d note that he’s the saint for merchants, seafarers, and thieves. The thieves sometimes call themselves the “clerks of St Nicholas”.
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The Wolves of Cernogratz by Saki
“Are there any old legends attached to the castle?” asked Conrad of his sister. Conrad was a prosperous Hamburg merchant, but he was the one poetically-dispositioned member of an eminently practical family. The Baroness Gruebel shrugged her plump shoulders. “There are always legends hanging about these old places. They are not difficult to invent and…
Read MoreThe November 2018 Transcipts
This was part of a writing challenge to stat up monsters from the older episodes of the podcast. So, four monster tiny demons, which are going to be added to a demon booklet for a future anniversary.\
Read MoreThe self portrait of Julia Stone – a revener
Reveners are demons that reanimate corpses. Julia Stone is unusual in that her corpse stays safely tucked away in its tomb, only stepping out into the world through her painting
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Cornwall: Aratea and the guardians of Stellasper
In the Scilly Isles there’s a missing covenant called Stellasper. We know of it only that it was a Criamon clutch, that its name suggests astrology, and that its people vanished together. To supplement the Cornish gazetter, that I produced earlier in the year, I’d like to consider how to expand the saga seeds within…
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